Professional Nav/iPhone questions

[Hard-Drive]

I've just picked up a 2015 F11 520d M Sport Touring and very nice it is too. It has the Professional Nav/Media system, and I have a few questions about phone connectivity.

I have a work phone (small capacity iPhone 5S) and a personal phone, a large capacity iPhone 8. All of my music is on my 8, downloaded to the Amazon Music app, which I can stream to the media system via bluetooth, and I get the album artwork on the split screen, and the ability to control tracks from the steering wheel buttons.

In an absolutely ideal world I'd have both phones paired with the car, and be able to take calls on each. However I understand this is not possible. So the best compromise would be to pair my work phone with the car from a voice perspective, and somehow my personal phone from a music perspective. Is this possible? Will a snap in adaptor help? Will a 5 fit in an 8 adaptor in any way with a rubber wedge or similar?

I'm sure I'm not the first person who has asked this so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[fuziduck]

I have a 2011 640d with pro nav, and possibly an optional advanced bluetooth module from factory. It allows 2 phones to be connected at once. You can choose which one is the main phone so it can stream music, phonebook and make calls from idrive. If the other phone rings it just displays the number rather than a name, but you can still answer etc.

Not sure if its the same system in the 5 series, I'm sure someone else can confirm.

[Fox-]

This feature requires Enhanced Bluetooth, something BMW messed around with during the life of the 5 Series. Cars from late 2010 onwards until about 2013 had Enhanced Bluetooth as standard with Pro Nav, then for some reason it became an option.

[mandos_01]

Probably not ideal, but you could use the music phone plugged in via USB cable and select that as the player, then have the work phone paired via bluetooth

My wife and I often do this on longer trips, my phone tends to be connected for calls but she plays the music

[anonymous-user]

I'm 99% sure it's just a bit of coding to enable advance bluetooth (which as said above allows two phones to be connected). Check whats possible with Bimmacode for your model but people have enabled it on 1 series.

[Osinjak]

CaptainMorgan said:

I'm 99% sure it's just a bit of coding to enable advance bluetooth (which as said above allows two phones to be connected). Check whats possible with Bimmacode for your model but people have enabled it on 1 series.

This. I know people who have coded EBT to get the multi-phone capability but of course you won't get the extra microphone. Might be worth asking around on BMW sites about coding, you never know there might be someone near you who will do it for a handful of beer tokens.

[Eddieslofart]

mandos_01 said:

Probably not ideal, but you could use the music phone plugged in via USB cable and select that as the player, then have the work phone paired via bluetooth

My wife and I often do this on longer trips, my phone tends to be connected for calls but she plays the music

Would it need b/tooth turned of on the usb connected phone ? I would suspect so ?

[richardracer]

Bimmercode will enable 2 phones. My 2014 M5 has it working and both my phones work in the car.

[Hard-Drive]

OK thanks guys. This Bimmercode thing looks interesting, however are there any warranty voiding issues or any tales of woe?

Thanks

[Osinjak]

Hard-Drive said:

OK thanks guys. This Bimmercode thing looks interesting, however are there any warranty voiding issues or any tales of woe?

Thanks

There was a chap over on F30 who had a right ball ache with a piece of coding he had done (or did himself) and it royally screwed up his electrical system, I'll see if I can find the link. That's the worst story I've ever heard, the most grumbles I usually read about are the ones where car gets returned to its original settings after a service so you have to recode. As for warranty? No idea but as the saying goes, you pays yer money!

[Osinjak]

Here you go:

http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=...